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The U.S. job market for software engineers is rapidly declining Original WSJ article [paywalled]: https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-jobs-artificial-intelligence-cce22393 Daily Mail summary of the WSJ article [free]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13869105/warning-artificial-intelligence-replac...

Future humans will be better-looking than we are today due to better technologies. GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic are already working towards this end by reducing obesity. In the 2030s, prices for it will drop sharply as its patent expires, and billions more people will be able to afford it. Moreover, ...

China's deflation problem has worsened, and the government looks unwilling/unable to fix it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-de ... 06274.html

Research it yourself. Maybe ask GPT.

The problem with a nuclear shield is even if the nukes don't reach us (and some inevitably will just because our foes will expand their nuke programs to overwhelm such a shield and ensure a few get through) is simple radiation. There are so many nukes that would be deployed that even if not a singl...

I like watching user reviews of things on YouTube, but I don't like the low production standards, long-winded talking, paid ads, bad jokes, etc. It won't be long before AI solves this problem by watching the videos for me in advance, understanding the content, and then editing them to make them to-t...

A nuclear shield protecting the U.S. would actually be destabilizing since Russia, China and North Korea would compensate by building more nuclear missiles in order to penetrate it. This is a moot point since it's technologically infeasible to make a shield that is 100% effective against a large nuc...

Future weapon idea: Gremlin drones the sizes of insects and small animals that crawl into the mechanical spaces of planes that are parked at airports. After the drones sense the planes have taken off, they cut the fuel line or inject a substance into it that clogs it.

What we need is to ensure that AGI becomes a great equalizer for all.

We might all be equally dead.

I wonder if it will make sense for posthumans to have larger eyes that are farther apart from each other. They would have a wider field of peripheral vision as a result, but the overlap between both eyes would still give them a field of detailed binocular view in front of them. Also, posthumans migh...